Chapter 65: Black Market Deal

Shen Zhengliang turned his face away and said impatiently, “I don’t need anyone to take care of me now, you can go.”

Shen Chuning calculated the time, her second brother had been hospitalized for about half a month, and his injuries should be almost healed, he could be discharged.

She was in a good mood today and didn’t bother with her second brother for chasing her away.

But since she couldn’t get any gossip, and her second brother said he didn’t need her to take care of him, she naturally wouldn’t go out of her way.

She went straight back.

The next day was Shen Zhengliang’s discharge day.

It was the busy farming season, and the brigade didn’t allow leave, so Father Shen and Shen Zhengxu couldn’t pick him up from the hospital.

Shen Chuning originally planned to pick him up, but after yesterday’s incident, she didn’t want to go.

Let’s see what that stubborn Second Brother would do!

At this time, at the commune hospital.

Shen Zhengliang was going through the discharge procedures.

When he saw the amount on the bill, he was shocked.

He had been hospitalized for half a month and it cost eighteen kuai and six mao.

Looking at the one kuai and four mao left in his hand, he felt the money was heavy.

He knew his family had no money.

The two hundred and sixty kuai betrothal gift left when his younger sister got married had been used to repay the debts from building the house and the famine years ago.

The money for his hospitalization must have been paid by his younger sister.

Thinking of yesterday, because he had a quarrel with Wang Yumeng, he spoke coldly to his younger sister who had come to take care of him.

But yesterday, his younger sister didn’t cry.

In the past, if he spoke a little louder, his younger sister would cry and wipe her tears, but yesterday, when his attitude was so cold, why didn’t his younger sister cry?

Was it because she was completely disappointed in her second brother?

Thinking this, Shen Zhengliang felt even more flustered.

He limped towards home.

At the hospital gate, he found a donkey cart parked there.

The old man driving the donkey cart greeted him, “Shen Zhengliang, get in.”

Shen Zhengliang looked at him.

He realized that it was Luo Laohan, the donkey cart driver from their brigade.

Luo Laohan was a veteran from the War of Resistance, he never married, had no children, and was injured in the war. He could have been supported by the brigade and enjoyed his old age.

But he insisted on contributing to the construction of socialism, so the brigade arranged for him to drive a donkey cart, giving him eight work points a day.

He contributed to the construction of socialism and wouldn’t be too tired, protecting his body.

“Uncle Luo, why are you here?” Shen Zhengliang asked Luo Jiefang happily after getting on the cart.

His leg was still very difficult to walk, and his injured leg hurt when it touched the ground.

He was worried that if he walked back like this, the treatment he had received in the hospital would be wasted.

“Why am I here? Your sister gave me two mao, asking me to pick you up.” Luo Jiefang, as a veteran, had a loud voice.

Now his voice was like a gong, every word hitting Shen Zhengliang’s heart.

Shen Zhengliang had thought he was lucky to have met Luo Jiefang when he came to the commune.

He didn’t have that much good luck.

He instantly regretted his attitude towards his sister.

But thinking of his sister, he also thought of Wang Yumeng, feeling irritable.

On the other side.

Shen Chuning got up early to check the vegetable seeds she had planted in the yard.

Overnight, the seeds had sprouted.

Shen Chuning was overjoyed.

It seemed that the spiritual spring water did have a promoting effect on the growth rate of crops outside the space, it just wasn’t as obvious as in the space.

But this was better, this way she wouldn’t have to hide when she used spiritual spring water to grow vegetables.

She didn’t know if the spiritual spring water could still increase the yield of grain and vegetables outside.

This could only be verified after harvesting in a while.

During this period, she had harvested another batch of grain in her space, and now she had 1600 jin of processed grain in her space.

She planned to take advantage of the fact that everyone in the village was busy with autumn harvest and planting to sell another batch in the black market.

After this period was over, everyone would be free and waiting for the new year, and it would be easy to attract attention if she went to the black market then.

Shen Chuning thought and did, carrying a backpack and riding her bicycle out of the village.

When she reached a place not far from the black market meeting point, she stopped her bicycle and disguised herself as she did the first time she came with her second brother.

Then she went to the courtyard where they met, to find Li Daye, the basket weaver.

“Daye…”

Shen Chuning greeted him, and the Daye who was concentrating on weaving baskets looked up and saw her, his eyes were excited, “Oh, Comrade, you’re finally here. Xiao Tao said that if you came, you don’t need to go to the market, just go see him.”

While saying this, Daye directly took Shen Chuning to find Chen Tao.

When they reached the courtyard where the black market was held today, Li Daye didn’t take her in, but said something to a young man who looked like a loafer squatting not far from the door.

The young man went into the courtyard.

Soon, Chen Tao came out quickly with the young man.

Seeing Shen Chuning, Chen Tao was overjoyed, “Comrade Shen, I’ve been waiting for you.”

The last time he received grain from Shen Chuning, after secretly transporting it to the black market in the big city, because the quality of the grain was so good, the price doubled, and it was in short supply, everyone scrambled to buy it.

Even powerful people were willing to give him a deposit and ask him to deliver it to their homes as soon as he had the goods.

Because the quality of the grain was good enough, it helped him gain a reputation in the big city’s black market, which led to the jealousy of the local snake.

Half a month ago, the local snake actually sent people here to chase and intercept him.

If it hadn’t been for a skilled comrade who happened to help him at that time, he might be dead now.

Thinking of his savior, he felt particularly guilty.

At that time, his savior had already been beaten badly, and he knew that a head-on collision wasn’t a good idea, so he tried to lure those people away.

After he escaped, when he sent someone back to look for his savior, he learned that his savior had disappeared and should have been saved by someone.

He originally wanted to send someone to look for him to repay his kindness.

But after thinking about it, he gave up.

After all, he was doing this kind of work, his head was always on the line.

Don’t let him find his savior, and get caught one day, and implicate his savior.

Shen Chuning still hid the grain in the dilapidated temple.

This time Chen Tao also actively raised the price, 1600 jin of grain sold for 500 kuai.

“Little sister, when will you have goods next time? I’ll give you another 200 kuai as a deposit, little sister, give me all the goods you have, okay?”

When Shen Chuning finished counting the money and was about to leave, Chen Tao asked her.